Monday 13 May 2019

ED envy Ramaphosa's 57.5% free votes, blatantly rigged to get 50.8% and now is stuck P Guramatunhu

"Congratulations @CyrilRamaphosa on your election victory. We wish you success as you build a strong and prosperous South Africa, and look forward to working closely together as we further strengthen the relationship between our two nations," said Emmerson Mnangagwa.

He was commenting on SA’s election results in which ANC won 57.5% of the vote. Poor Mnangagwa how it must have pained him to hear that South Africa had a verified voters roll and the elections were free, fair and credible and so the 57.5% votes ANC garnered were all from real people and they voted freely. He could never say the same for Zimbabwe elections.

Fearful that Zanu PF would not be able to coerce and/or cheat the 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora out of their vote the party connived to deny them the vote. When Mnangagwa was in New York for the UN General Assembly in September 2018, just two months after the elections, he said Zimbabweans in the diaspora will be allowed to vote next time. In other words, the regime had deliberately denied them the vote in the July 2018 elections. 

In the end under 5 million voted in the July 2018 elections, no one who the voters were, how many cast multiple votes, etc. because the regime failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. The whole election process was full of irregularities, flaws and illegalities. 

“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” wrote the EU Election Mission in its final report. 

“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”

The numerous errors in the vote tallies, ZEC ended up with three different results which they failed to explain, was to be expected given some of the V11 forms, summary of the vote count at the Polling Station, were never released and so ZEC officials cooked up the figure and then revised the figure again and again to secure Mnangagwa’s victory. 

After all the vote rigging shenanigans ZEC only manage to secure 50.8% or 2.4 million vote election victory for Mnangagwa. It should be noted this was less than the 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora who were denied the vote. No wonder Mnangagwa in green with envy at Cyril Ramaphosa’s genuine democratic mandate. 

By blatantly rigging last year’s elections Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. The ramification of this is Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown because investors and lenders have continued to shy away from Zimbabwe. No one wants to do business in a pariah state plagued by economic chaos and political instability. No one!

If President Cyril Ramaphosa plays his cards right, so far he has failed to impress with his blundering incompetency, he has a chance of building a strong and prosperous SA. The same cannot be said of poor Mnangagwa; as long as he and his regime remain in power Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is set to get worse! 

Zimbabwe’s only hope of economic recovery is for Mnangagwa to step down and thus lift the curse of having an illegitimate government. More significantly, by stepping down, Zanu PF will create the political space for the appointment of the interim administration which can then be entrusted to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections.

If Zanu PF is allowed to remain in office until 2023 then we can be 100% certain that the regime will rig that year’s elections too and extend it corrupt and tyrannical rule. That is one evil we must not let befall this nation; Mnangagwa must be forced to step down a.s.a.p. and BEFORE 2023! 

3 comments:

  1. Mnangagwa and his Zananu PF junta blatantly rigged last year's elections just as the party has rigged past elections. Opposition leaders like Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, David Coltart, Nkosana Moyo and many, many others one thought had some working grey stuff between their ears all participated in the elections knowing fully well the elections would be rigged. They all knew that Zanu PF would give away a few gravy train seats as bait during these elections and it was these give-away seats they are after.
    “The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” confessed David Coltart in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.

    “The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”

    Coltart was a Senator and MDC-N minister in the GNU that failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years. SADC leaders begged Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders NOT to take part in the 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms and their warning fell on deaf ears because of greed, as Coltart confessed.

    Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last year’s elections which is the reason why he is now stuck with a serious problem of economic meltdown. By rigging the elections he confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. No one wants to do business with lawless and corrupt thugs. The worsening economic meltdown is exerting a lot of pressure on Mnangagwa and his regime to step down. The pressure would be even more is the regime was told from the word go that it is illegitimate. By participating in the flawed and illegal elections MDC and the other opposition parties have given Zanu PF some modicum of political credibility!
    In the last decade, the people of Zimbabwe have failed to make any meaningful progress in their endeavour to end the de facto one-party dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy because MDC leaders, the people whom the nation has looked up to implement the democratic reforms, have sold-out. Instead of implementing the reforms MDC leaders have reached an understanding with Zanu PF – the later allows them to win a few gravy train seats in return for MDC leaders paying lip-service to implementing the reforms.
    If Zimbabwe is ever going to have free, fair and credible elections the ordinary Zimbabweans have to fight on two fronts:
    1) We must pressure Zanu PF to step down so the nation can appoint an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the democratic reforms leading to the holding of free and fair elections.
    2) We must recognise MDC and the opposition for whom they really are, corrupt, incompetent and double-crossing sell-out who will happily retain the Zanu PF dictatorship as long as they the regime continue to feed them the scraps.

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  2. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly due to tender his resignation as the country’s leader in less than twelve months, to avoid a humiliating exit, after failing to resolve Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and suffering an alleged business fallout with a powerful military faction rooting for Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, to either take over or name a successor to finish off Mnangagwa’s term, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has exclusively been told
    Mnangagwa is easily one of the richest man in Zimbabwe, according to Wikileaks cables written by a US envoy in 2001. The cables, however, do not provide an estimate of his wealth, but speculation is rife that his fortune could now be in the billion dollar club.

    United Nations Security Council reports in 2002 and 2003, say Mnangagwa’s wealth was supplemented by his involvement as one of the illegal mineral exploiters in the Congo, through a company called Cosleg Private Limited. Cosleg is a joint venture company formed by a Democratic Republic of Congo-based entity Congo Comiex and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ company Operation Sovereign Legitimacy (OSLEG). The firm was established for the purpose of pursuing business opportunities in timber and minerals found in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province.
    It is clear that the Zanu PF regime is feeling the heat from the worsening economic meltdown. The regime rigged the July 2018 elections and was confident it would revive the economy; the latter has proven a bridge too far. Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and as long as this remains the case there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
    The regime is in a panic and it shows; replacing Mnangagwa with Chiwenga or anyone else will not change the fundamental reality of the pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs!
    The cure of the pariah state curse is for Zanu PF regime to step down; it is illegitimate because it rigged last year’s elections. There is no other way out, there is no dodging the bullet!

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  3. In the 1997-2007 period, living standards (as measured by real gross domestic product [GDP] per capita) fell by a stunning 38%. The episode, which peaked at an annual inflation rate of 89.7 sextillion percent—that is 89.7 followed by 20 zeros—in November of 2008, had robbed people of their savings and financial institutions of their capital through real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates that were actually negative.

    It is ironic that ever since Zanu PF came into power in 1980 the regime spent the first decade promising the people mass prosperity and from 1990 onward when it adopted its first five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) it has promised economic recovery. The truth is the people’s standard of living have been in decline for or the last 39 years with the worst nose-dive in 1997 to 2008 and have never recovered.

    President Mnangagwa and his Finance Minister’s “austerity for prosperity” will drag the people into even greater depths of poverty without any gain. The country is a pariah state and as long as that remains the case it will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery. Never!

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